John Fraser

Two White Rectangles [London, 2014]

2015

At the petrol station is an original vintage silver salts photograph, made by the great Russian Constructivist artist Aleksandr Michajlovic Rodčenko (Saint Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956) in 1935 ca. Printed later, presumably between the 1940s and the 1950s. In very good conditions, it is rare and precious. A scene of ordinary life is portrayed in an unusual point of view. The oblique cuts, the use of diagonal as the dynamics of this image, the close position of the machine are constants of Rodčenko'style and something of absolutely revolutionary and innovative at that time in the field of photography! Provenance: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Great Britain; Forum Auction, London; Private Collection. Bibliography: Alexander Rodchenko. Catalog of the retrospective exhibition published from the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1979. Aleksandr Michajlovič Rodčenko (St. Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956) Aleksandr Michajlovič Rodčenko was a Russian painter, photographer and graphic designer, a leading figure of the Russian avant-gardes who collaborated in the establishment of the Constructivist movement. In 1924 Rodcenko definitively abandoned painting as the main artistic medium to embrace photography...

Original Vintage hand signed Photograph, 1935. Dimensions : 27x22 cm. This wonderful photograph by Man Ray shows an intense portrait of Franci...

Final version eventually becoming part of nationally known "Leyendecker MacArthur Series" by Timken Roller Bearing Company. Unsigned. Bottom border features a pair cat sketches.

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right

'Mussolini With Shovel' is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper, the stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back, here Mussolini makes the first shot of shovel...

Views of Spina di Borgo is a lot of two vintage single-coated photographic prints. On the back a violet stamp "Fotovedo Roma..." and some hand-written notes in lapis reporting the da...